Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Glenquin, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenquin
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.01694, -8.99241
- SMR number
- CL010-223----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the semi-karst summit plateau of Slieve Roe, commanding wide views from E to S. Documented and reported to the National Monuments Service in 2006 by Elizabeth Gills. This small subcircular cairn (circumference 21.6m; 7.7m E-W; 7.2m N-S; H 1.8m) mostly comprises medium/large stones, loosely piled on a rubble base. There are several possible kerbstones set on edge around the perimeter, most visibly on the W side.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 27 June 2023
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.